Psycho-Oncology

Psycho-Oncology is a peer-reviewed psychosocial oncology journal published by Wiley. Founded in 1992, it attends to the psychological, social, behavioural and ethical aspects of cancer and is the official journal of both the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the British Psycho-Oncology Society.《心理肿瘤学》（Psycho-Oncology）是一份由威立出版出版的肿瘤心理学同行评审学术期刊。该刊创刊于 1992 年，关注癌症的心理、社会、行为与伦理层面，是美国心理社会肿瘤学会与英国心理肿瘤学会的共同官方刊物。

Scope

The journal's editorial stance takes two principal psychological dimensions as its core, requiring that a paper fall within them: the psychological responses of patients and of their families and carers at all stages of disease, and the psychological, behavioural and social factors that may influence the disease process. The journal also stresses cross-disciplinary boundaries, actively drawing on the clinical disciplines of oncology, epidemiology, immunology, endocrinology, biology, pathology, bioethics, palliative care and rehabilitation medicine. Its principal subject areas include:本刊的取稿立场是「以两大心理维度为核心」，即要求论文须落在癌症的两个主要心理维度之内：患者及其家属与照护者在疾病各阶段的心理反应，以及可能影响疾病过程的心理、行为与社会因素。刊物同时强调跨学科边界，主动吸收肿瘤学各临床学科、流行病学、免疫学、内分泌学、生物学、病理学、生物伦理、缓和医疗与康复医学等方向的研究。收文覆盖的主要方向包括：

• Patients' psychological responses: emotional response and psychological adjustment at the stages of diagnosis, treatment, recurrence and end of life.患者心理反应： 癌症确诊、治疗、复发与临终各阶段的情绪反应与心理适应。
• Family and carers: psychological burden, caregiving experience and intervention needs among patients' families and carers.家属与照护者： 患者家属与照护者的心理负担、照护体验与干预需求。
• Quality of life: appraisal and intervention for cancer-related symptom burden, functional status and health-related quality of life.生活质量： 癌症相关症状负担、功能状态与健康相关生活质量的评价与干预。
• Psychosocial intervention: the application of psychotherapy, cognitive behavioural intervention, peer support and social work in oncology care.心理社会干预： 心理治疗、认知行为干预、同伴支持与社会工作在肿瘤照护中的应用。
• Behavioural and biological convergence: the influence of psychosocial and behavioural factors on the disease process, and the relation of biomarkers with psychosocial variables.行为与生物学交汇： 心理行为因素对疾病过程的影响，以及生物标志物与心理社会变量的关联。

The journal is a hybrid title. The subscription route charges authors nothing, while open access carries an article processing charge. The publisher publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for this title, and the library's previous notes of relatively easy acceptance and an average of three to eight weeks had no official basis and have been deleted. The journal is indexed in the Science Citation Index Expanded and carries a 2025 impact factor of 3.9.该刊属混合出版模式：订阅路线不向作者收费，选择开放获取需支付文章处理费。出版方不公布该刊录用比例与审稿时长，库内原记录用率「相对容易」与审稿「平均，3 至 8 周」均无官方依据，已删除。该刊被科学引文索引扩展版收录，2025 年影响因子 3.9。

History

• Founding (1992): the journal was founded in 1992 under its present name, with no predecessor, and the library's record of the founding year agrees with the current arrangement.创刊（1992年）： 本刊创刊于 1992 年，创刊刊名即为现名，无前身刊；库内所记创刊年与现行安排一致。^[1]
• Society affiliation: the journal is the official title of both the American Psychosocial Oncology Society and the British Psycho-Oncology Society, a dual-society arrangement that gives it both North American and European traditions of psychosocial oncology.学会归属： 本刊为美国心理社会肿瘤学会与英国心理肿瘤学会的共同官方刊物；这一双学会共同主办的格局使刊物兼具北美与欧洲的心理社会肿瘤学传统。^[2]
• Current editor: Anao Zhang serves as editor-in-chief, holding the Lynn Behar Endowed Professorship in Psychosocial Oncology at the University of Washington School of Social Work and directing the Center for Interdisciplinary Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Research and Practice, his appointment announced in a dedicated piece by the publisher. The library's previously missing editor field has been filled in from the official page.现任主编： 张安傲（Anao Zhang）任主编，为华盛顿大学社会工作学院心理社会肿瘤学林恩·贝哈讲席教授、跨学科心理社会肿瘤学与缓和照护研究与实践中心主任；其任命由出版方专文宣布。库内原缺编辑字段，已按官方页补入。^[3]
• Former editor: Maggie Watson served as the previous editor-in-chief, during whose tenure the journal's disciplinary coverage broadened from psychological response toward the convergence of behaviour and biology.前任主编： 玛吉·沃森（Maggie Watson）任前任主编，其在任期间刊物的学科覆盖面从心理反应扩展到行为与生物学交汇领域。^[2]
• Conflicting frequency records: sources disagree on the journal's frequency, with third-party records giving bimonthly, twelve issues a year or continuous publication, and the publisher giving no unified statement on its official page. This entry records the divergence as it stands in the volume arrangement.刊期记载冲突： 各来源对刊期记载不一，第三方记录为双月刊，另有来源记每年十二期或连续出版；出版方未在官方页给出统一刊期说明，本稿按卷期编排据实标注分歧。^[2]
• Metric trend: the 2025 impact factor of 3.9, together with a CiteScore of 6.0, places the journal in the middle to upper range across the psychology multidisciplinary, psychiatry and mental health and oncology categories.指标走势： 影响因子自 2025 年的 3.9 与引用分数 6.0 共同刻画该刊位置；在心理学综合、精神病与心理健康及肿瘤学三个类目中均居中等偏上位置。^[2]

Editors

The journal operates under a single editor-in-chief appointed jointly by the two sponsoring societies, with manuscripts submitted through the publisher's own submission system. The publisher publishes no editorial process detail beyond the journal's positioning, and the composition of the editorial office is taken from the masthead.本刊实行主编负责制，主编由两个主办学会共同任命并主持编辑部；稿件经出版方自有的投稿系统投递。官方不公布除期刊定位之外的编辑流程细节，编辑部构成以刊头署名为准。

• Anao Zhang (current editor-in-chief): holder of the Lynn Behar Endowed Professorship in Psychosocial Oncology at the University of Washington School of Social Work and director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Psychosocial Oncology and Palliative Care Research and Practice, a licensed clinical social worker and certified oncology social worker, working on complex quantitative and intervention-based research in psychosocial oncology.张安傲（现任主编）： 华盛顿大学社会工作学院心理社会肿瘤学林恩·贝哈讲席教授、跨学科心理社会肿瘤学与缓和照护研究与实践中心主任，执业临床社会工作者与认证肿瘤社会工作者，研究方向为心理社会肿瘤学中的复杂定量与干预研究。^[3]
• Methodological expertise: the current editor's methodological expertise lies in structural equation modelling, meta-analysis and statistical machine learning applied to psychosocial and health research, a background that corroborates the journal's recent emphasis on quantitative evidence.方法学专长： 现任主编的方法学专长为结构方程模型、荟萃分析与统计机器学习在心理社会与健康研究中的应用，这一背景与该刊近年偏重定量证据的取向相互印证。^[3]
• Former editor: Maggie Watson served as the previous editor-in-chief, during whose tenure the journal extended from psychological response research toward the convergence of behaviour and biology.前任主编： 玛吉·沃森任前任主编，其在任期间该刊完成了从心理反应研究向行为与生物学交汇领域的扩展。^[2]
• Acceptance and speed: the publisher publishes neither an acceptance rate nor a review duration for this title. The library's previous notes of relatively easy acceptance and an average of three to eight weeks had no official basis and have been deleted.录用与时效： 出版方不公布该刊录用率与审稿时长；库内原记录用率「相对容易」与审稿「平均，3 至 8 周」均无官方依据，已删除。^[2]
• Standing in the field: the journal is regarded as one of the principal titles in psychosocial oncology, its research cited directly in psychosocial oncology guidelines and palliative care pathways, and together with the other psychosocial titles in the field it forms the publication base of psycho-oncology.学科地位： 该刊被视为心理社会肿瘤学方向的主要刊物之一，其研究常被肿瘤心理社会指南与缓和照护路径直接引用，与该领域其他心理社会刊物共同构成肿瘤心理学的发表底座。^[2]